This piece began with a paragraph written for the Montaigne book a week before Prince died. I’m grateful to Belt Publishing for including it in their “Under Purple Skies” anthology, to Longreads…View post

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s…View post

If you’re within range of (or can stream) one of these stations tonight (Saturday, April 27th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua.…View post

Green Bay…Thursday…in a terrific little theater. We’ll do it the way we do it. And my guy Kris swapped the snow tires off the van, so fingers crossed it don’t…View post

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s…View post